@ILikePancakes cake walk man. After looking at the thunder schedule, you can tell they meant it to be rough for the "up and comers" . Kinda like, earn your stripes thing. Considering with the condensed season, limited practice time, injuries, and back to backs, our guys have done amazingly well. Some games we SHOULD of won, but considering we ARE going to the playoffs, im happy.

@diddoff Deng is a pretty strong 1-1 defender at SF (not as clear cut at PF) but a good portion of his defense value is probably as a help defender. Melo is pretty big and strong for a SF. Maybe he does better when he has a clear size advantage. Melo has the strength edge. KD the length edge.

@qrex I'd say we did the lion's share of the work ourselves by getting to 40 wins in the first place. It's like we've piloted a jumbo jet on a cross-country flight, but we still needed the guys with the headsets and reflective sticks to wave us up to the terminal.

@f5alcon True but Charlotte has made him the starting PF now (at least for the last 5 games) A few good scoring games are not that surprising given his high usage and being on a team the opponent doesn"t really fear and may not play against very hard but big men are a gamble and he is a somewhat interesting young gamble.

@f5alcon He is in the bottom 20% of most broad measures for guys 6-10+. He has gotten the opportunity to have a fairly high usage (top 15% in the league ) and fairly high minutes. He got his shot. Some don't get it as fully or at all.

@f5alcon April is young but he increased his shots at the rim in these few games to 5 times the level he had at the very start of the season. Maybe Silas finally convinced him. In April he gets shots at the rim at a rate equal to Westbrook and top 10 in the league. If he keeps that up he is a new Mullens. It will probably fade at least some but wait n see.